Plaster Surface Model by Alexander Crum Brown, c 1900.
- Made:
- circa 1900 in Edinburgh
- maker:
- Alexander Crum Brown
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Plaster model of the surface z = 3a(x2 - y2) - (x3 + y3). Alexander Crum Brown was both a mathematician and chemist. He was a prolific maker of mathematical models. In this example, every section made by a plane passing through the blue line forms an ellipse
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1910-136
- Measurements:
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overall: 255 mm x 197 mm x 192 mm, 4.328 kg
- type:
- surface model (plaster)
- credit:
- Professor A. Crum-Brown
